Councilmember Dan Strauss recently informed me that the Chief of the Seattle Police Department Adrian Diaz attributed a large part of the surge in gun violence to road rage. And so it didn't surprise me to find this story in the Seattle Times: "Shots fired in road rage confrontation near lower West Seattle Bridge." I'm still of the opinion that this behavior can be blamed on how cars are advertised: always on empty roads, always.
Streamed February 17 through February 23
Encapsulating the art and wisdom of Billy Woodberry, this series of four films features his classic mid-1980s
Bless Their Little Hearts. “Just the blues and Brecht,“ as he observes, the film is an essential work of Los Angeles cinema, informed by Italian neorealism and filmmaking traditions from Brazil, Cuba, India, and Africa. Woodberry also teaches film at the California Institute of the Arts.
While researching the history of the National Maritime Union, Woodberry came across a fascinating trove of photographs of dockers in Marseille, France, from the 1940s. With these grainy black-and-white images, his short film evokes “solidarity, fraternity, and struggle” among stevedores just after the end of World War II: Black men and white men working and relaxing alongside one another. This collection of stills coupled with a complex soundtrack that includes Woodberry’s narration is a stunning homage to renowned Senegalese filmmaker Ou